Rocking Around the Clock Rocking Around the Clock
Routledge Library Editions: Popular Music

Rocking Around the Clock

Music Television, Postmodernism, and Consumer Culture

    • $48.99
    • $48.99

Publisher Description

The first non-stop rock video channel was launched in the US in 1981. As a unique popular culture form, MTV warrants attention, and in this, the first study of the medium, originally published in 1987, Ann Kaplan examines the cultural context of MTV and its relationship to the history of rock music. The first part of the book focuses on MTV as a commercial institution, on the contexts of production and exhibition of videos, on their similarity to ads, and on the different perspectives of directors and viewers. Does the adoption of adolescent styles and iconography signal an open-minded acceptance of youth’s subversive stances; or does it rather suggest a cynicism by which profit has become the only value?


In the second part of the book, Kaplan turns to the rock videos themselves, and from the mass of material that flows through MTV she identifies five distinct types of video: the ‘romantic’, the ‘socially conscious’, the ‘nihilistic’, the ‘classical’, and the ‘postmodern’. There are detailed analyses of certain videos; and Kaplan focuses particularly on gender issues in videos by both male and female stars. The final chapter explores the wider implications of MTV. What does the channel tell us about the state of youth culture at the time?

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2016
April 14
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
204
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor and Francis
SELLER
Taylor & Francis Group
SIZE
6.1
MB

More Books Like This

Music/Video Music/Video
2017
Medium Cool Medium Cool
2007
Sound and Vision Sound and Vision
2005
Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema
2013
The Music Documentary The Music Documentary
2013
The Media Swirl The Media Swirl
2023

More Books by E. Ann Kaplan

Women in Film Noir Women in Film Noir
2019
Trauma Culture Trauma Culture
2005
Climate Trauma Climate Trauma
2015
Women & Film Women & Film
2013
The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender
2016
Motherhood and Representation Motherhood and Representation
2013

Other Books in This Series

Tin Pan Alley Tin Pan Alley
2016
Adolescents and their Music Adolescents and their Music
2016
Rock 'n' Roll Rock 'n' Roll
2016
Popular Music Popular Music
2016
Popular Music Popular Music
2016
Jazz & Blues Jazz & Blues
2016